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"Beatrice, are you asleep?" Beatrice did not say yes, but she let her breath out carefully in a slumbrous sigh. It certainly sounded as if she were asleep. "Be-atrice!" The tone, though guarded, was insistent. The head of Beatrice moved slightly, and settled back into its little nest, for all the world like a dreaming, innocent baby. If she had not been the mother of Beatrice, Mrs.
Your poor sister." "There, mama. Dear Dolly didn't live upon stilts, I'm sure. Even when she married." "Be-atrice!" "Dear me, mama! I hope you are not growing peevish. Peevish elderly people " "Auntie! I want to go home!" the small boy wailed. "You cannot go home now, dear," sighed his guardian angel.
"Only think of having to live, all one's life, with a model husband!" shuddered Beatrice hypocritically. "Be-atrice! And then, it's something to marry a title." "That's the worst of it," remarked Beatrice. "Any other girl in America would jump at the chance. I do believe, Beatrice, you are hanging back just to be aggravating. And there's another thing, Beatrice.
Why won't you just be sorry for yourself, and let it end there? I know you hated to come, poor dear; but you wouldn't think of letting me come alone, though I'm sure I shouldn't have minded. This is going to be a delicious summer I feel it in my bones." "Be-atrice!" "Why, mama? Aren't young ladies supposed to have bones?" "Young ladies are not supposed to make use of unrefined expressions.
"It's ten miles off," said Dick shortly, taking the steps at a jump. "I don't care if it's twenty I'm going. Sir Redmond, wait for me!" "Be-atrice!" cried her mother detainingly; but Beatrice was gone to get ready.
You said something, or did something, to make him very angry. He has not been himself all day. What did you say?" "Dear me, mama, I am not responsible for all Sir Redmond's ill-humor." "I did not ask you that, Beatrice." Beatrice thumped her pillow again. "I don't remember anything very dreadful, mama. I I think he has indigestion." "Be-atrice!
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